ramblings and thoughts ! From the blue of the sky to the brown of the earth beneath !

My father was a military man. He was an athlete, an artist, a music lover, a charming smart-ass who always had a clever retort. He was a 6’6″ giant and there was nothing scarier than his tennis racket sized hands, though he rarely had to lift them to make my brother and I behave. He seemed to literally be the “Big Man On Campus” on our small Air Force Base. As kids, we couldn’t go anywhere without someone recognizing him and wanting to talk for a few minutes.

When I was 9, my little league team was the Cubs, we were in 1st place. We were playing the Pirates, they were in last place. It wasn’t hard to tell why, their coach was negative and aggressive, yelling at players and taunting the other team. I was at bat and he was screaming at the pitcher “C’MON SON PUT IT DOWN…

When times are hard, things look tough, and every hope seems to fade away. 🙂

Just tell yourself.

The challenge is only as good as the difficulty.

Its just the legendary mode, not everyone can manage.

You are one of the few who can.

You might have to fall down, lose, press alt+f4 and start again.

But then its all a part of the learning routine.

Maybe you would feel this is never gonna change, that you will not be able to do it. But then again, things always change for the better.

Start again, lower the difficulty, accept a lesser challenge, once you beat that and get back up on your feet. Do not hesitate, do not be afraid to go back to what beat you. You just have to try more, maybe restart it. Maybe mess up some seasons. But it does not matter. What matters is how much you get better. Because, well, you can never be worse.

And one day, you’ll start turning the tide, taking control. Loving what you do, You’ll feel alive. You’ll start relishing each and every minute of challenge and keep on getting better at beating it. And finally,
A time will come when even legendary seems to be nothing more than beginner.

But then, do not pity it, because there might be someone still better than you out there.Then again, you might not be the one alone who’s capable of the demons that every one of us face. You might face hurdles bigger than any you’ve faced ever before, in them. There might be a hell of a lot more people who found the inspiration. But then again, not many have to be as good as you. Keep enjoying it, you will learn to beat them too. Always remember to get back up, get a rematch, try again, keep at it.And finally, one day, one fine day, or maybe night; come to think of it, you might find that you have gone from a measly beginner to a true legend. And you might not find anyone who can take the success away from you.
But if u did not find anyone, do not pity the world, the next FIFA is just a year away.
Chill, Shut down your gaming rig. Go get some sleep, have some beer, go partying, take your girl out and make her feel like how you do now, catch some real football and grab something to eat. And don’t forget to go play some with your friends in an empty yard with creepers and the ‘goalpost’ trees.

“Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company until the end. Not many people are”
Credits to the person who actually spoke these words. I have not and have no ‘ copyright ‘ on it. 🙂 Just the right of finding something nice in google.

Now close your eyes and conjure up an image of what Rupert Hope Denton might look like. A cherub perhaps? Surrounded by other cherubs with names like Caleb, Alexander and Tobias? Maybe Caleb, Alexander and Tobias are savagely beating Rupert Hope Denton with their lutes and harps for having such a wussy name. So when a guy called Rupert Hope finds himself in a city called Philly he ought to be scared.

Philadelphia is a tough city. Everyone looks like a character from The Wire, The Sopranos or Skins. I on the other hand look like a character from Doug. Everyone has a take no shit suffer no fools attitude. I on the other hand, am a fool and talk a lot of shit.

I’m standing in line at a restaurant in Italian Market in South Philadelphia. One of those establishments were the walls…

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

“It seems that all my bridges have been burnt,
But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works.
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive with the restart.”– Mumford & Sons

How do you know when it’s time to let go?

This is a question I struggle with daily, because I am not someone who says goodbye easily. All too often I am the only one left holding on after everyone else has walked away.

“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” – Kahled Hosseini

If you come to know me well enough, you will find that there’s almost nothing I wouldn’t do for those I am closest to. Need help moving? Lucky for you, I love to pack things. Have no one to take you to the airport…